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Spermatophytes (seed plants): Angiosperms (flowering plants): Eudicots: Core Eudicots: Asterids: Campanulids: Asterales
WEAKLEY'S FLORA (11/30/12):
Sericocarpus asteroides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
PLANTS NATIONAL DATABASE:
Sericocarpus asteroides
FAMILY
Asteraceae
SYNONYMOUS WITH
VASCULAR FLORA OF THE CAROLINAS (Radford, Ahles, & Bell, 1968) 179-47-001:
Aster paternus
FAMILY
Asteraceae
COMMON NAME:
Toothed Whitetop Aster
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USDA-NRCS PLANTS Database / Britton, N.L., and A. Brown. 1913 pnd_seas3_001_lvd
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5198
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200525_5201
May Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_16
June Oconee County SC
The 1/2" heads are borne in flat-topped clusters, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm0506j_18
June Oconee County SC
Leaves elliptic, lower with a petiole & a few teeth, upper smaller & sessile, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm170624_242
June Oconee County SC
Sumter National Forest: Andrew Pickens Ranger District
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Richard and Teresa Ware rtw_s_asteroides
June
The so-called White-topped Asters have about 5 rays and creamy-white disks, per Wildflowers of the Southern Mountains.
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JK Marlow jkm060704_024b
July Greenville County SC
Rays broader than those of S. linifolius, per Wildflowers of Tennessee, the Ohio Valley, and the Southern Appalachians.
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9586
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190702_9587
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190726_0165
July Transylvania County NC
DuPont State Forest
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6313
July Greenville County SC
Stems generally scabrous-puberulent in the inflorescence, per Manual of Vascular Plants of NE US & Adjacent Canada (Gleason & Cronquist,1991).
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6315
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6318
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm200703_6320
July Greenville County SC
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JK Marlow jkm190810_0637
August Greenville County SC
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsasteroides_buzroost2
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Involucres narrowly campanulate to cylindric, upper bracts usually squarrose, per Vascular Flora of the Carolinas.
COMPARE
involucral bracts of North American asters
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Patrick D. McMillan pdmsasteroides_buzroost3
Month Unknown Oconee County SC
Buzzard Roost Heritage Preserve
Coastal Plain populations are rhizomatous, while inland populations are not, per Weakley's Flora.